With everything else going on this weekend at Petco Park, where the first-place Padres will welcome the hated Dodgers for three games with big crowds and “Beat L.A.” T-shirts, it might be easy to forget what’s happening in the press box.

Which is just the way Dick Enberg and Vin Scully would like it — keep the attention on the field.

But think about it: Enberg and Scully, two of the greatest announcers of any generation, will be sitting just one booth apart, telling stories and describing the action to hundreds of thousands of baseball fans in Southern California, many of whom have spent much of their lives listening to both. Enberg will be on Channel 4 San Diego, Scully on the Dodgers’ TV network and, for the first three innings of each game, on KABC-AM (790).

“I think it’s wonderful,” Scully said the other day by phone from Phoenix. “More than doing the same game, I’m very happy that he would come back to the game. I know how the people in San Diego will enjoy him because he is such a marvelous announcer.

“I called his home as soon as I heard the news but that particular day he was on his way to do a football game so I just told his wife that I was calling to say welcome back. He’s always been one of my favorites. He’s an extremely talented broadcaster and someone whom I’ve always admired.

“… Our paths have not crossed very often because we’ve always been doing different things. We probably won’t spend that much time together during this upcoming series, but it’s just going to be awfully nice to have him there.”

Scully is 82, Enberg is 75, and the two have been around so long — Scully joined the Dodgers in 1950(!) and Enberg began his career in the mid-1960s — that it seems almost impossible to believe they wouldn’t have shared the same press box on numerous occasions. But neither could remember it happening at any time since the Freeway Series exhibition games of the 1970s when Enberg was the voice of the Angels, although records show both men called the 1982 World Series, Enberg for NBC and Scully for CBS Radio.

Their paths crossed again, so to speak, the next summer when Enberg was in Helsinki working the World Championships of track and field. He was spending his off time studying The Sporting News and other baseball reference materials in preparation for another World Series when producer Michael Weisman asked to see him.

“It’s the only time in my life I was really hurt and mad. I felt somehow I’d been betrayed,” Enberg recalled this week by phone from San Francisco. “He said, ‘Well, I guess I’m the one to tell you: You’re not doing the World Series,’ I said why and he said, ‘Because we just hired Vin Scully.’

“I went and threw those Sporting News all over the hotel room. But, at the same time, when I collected my emotions, had it been anyone else I would have been really mad. But you bow to the talent of the best ever.”